And it occurs to me suddenly sometimes the dearest things in life
Are either right before our eyes
Or they’ve long since passed away

And you appear to me suddenly in the middle of the night
And you’re right before my eyes
Yet you’ve long since passed away

Back story

Two childhood friends drift apart as they enter adulthood. The person left wondering “Whatever happened to…Victoria” doesn’t meet up with her again until he is an old man – just in time to attend her funeral. The entire duration of the song is really the narrator’s own thoughts as he looks down at Victoria in the casket wondering where all of the time went. I wrote this in the early 1990’s at the age of twenty-two.